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links for 2009-4-3: Nieman does some math on paid, can we please not pretend "curation" is a new concept.

Okay.I fundamentally agree with the article but on the other hand hate it. I have been talking about curation for a while and (actually taught someone who is currently making noise about it, the word) but do we really have to pretend that is a "new" concept. Too many things on the web need to be an addressed in "new" terms. Curation is what good editors do and have always done. Front of book in magazine - the part with all of the products and little tidbits is curated, and in the bigger sense every piece of media created by studios, book publishers, and others is curated. Online Kottke and Romensko have been curating for long time. Even this blog which is mostly a links blog is curated with the idea that you may like what I pick. "The job of the future" really? How about just the reassertion of the role of editor in our crowd sourced jumble of a world.

Okay.I fundamentally agree with the article but on the other hand hate it. I have been talking about curation for a while and (actually taught someone who is currently making noise about it, the word) but do we really have to pretend that is a "new" concept. Too many things on the web need to be an addressed in "new" terms. Curation is what good editors do and have always done. Front of book in magazine - the part with all of the products and little tidbits is curated, and in the bigger sense every piece of media created by studios, book publishers, and others is curated. Online Kottke and Romensko have been curating for long time. Even this blog which is mostly a links blog is curated with the idea that you may like what I pick. "The job of the future" really? How about just the reassertion of the role of editor in our crowd sourced jumble of a world.